Flörsbach (Flörsbachtal)

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Flörsbach
community Flörsbachtal
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 48 ″  N , 9 ° 24 ′ 59 ″  E
Height : 367 m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.91 km²
Residents : 657  (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density : 66 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : April 1, 1972
Postal code : 63639
Area code : 06057

Flörsbach is a district of the municipality of Flörsbachtal in the Main-Kinzig district in Hesse .

geography

The source of the Flörsbach

The place is surrounded by forest in the Spessart am Hartgrundsee at an altitude of 368 m above sea ​​level , 11.5 km southeast of Bad Orb . The Wiesbüttmoor west of the village in the direction of meadows is a scenic feature . The district and state border with Bavaria runs through the Wiesbüttsee here . The Birkenhainer Straße ran through Flörsbach in a west-east direction and at Wiesbüttmoor it crosses the Eselsweg , another historical long-distance trade and now a tourist long-distance hiking trail , in a north-south direction .

The eponymous Flörsbach rises in the village .

history

The oldest surviving mention of the village comes from the year 1324, then with the place name Flerssbach . The Counts of Rieneck , later to Rieneck-Rothenfels, carried the place of Kurmainz to fief . After the death of the last count of the Rieneck-Rothefels line in 1333, the Archbishop of Mainz tried to collect it as a settled fiefdom. In 1339, however, a court of men awarded it to the nephew of the last owner, Ulrich II von Hanau , as heir. Since then it has been part of the lordship and from 1429 of the County of Hanau , from 1458 of the County of Hanau-Münzenberg . In the Hanau rulership it belonged first to the Schwarzenfels office , later to the Lohrhaupten office . The location of the village on the two long-distance trade routes made Flörsbach an important crossing point. In church terms, Flörsbach was a branch of Kempfenbrunn in the Middle Ages .

After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , The village and office fell in 1736 - together with the entire county of Hanau-Munzenberg - to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel , which in 1803 became the Electorate of Hesse . Here the Lohrhaupten office was dissolved with the administrative reform of the Electorate of Hesse in 1821, and Flörsbach became part of the newly formed Gelnhausen district . In 1866 the electorate was annexed by Prussia after the German-Austrian War and Flörsbach came to the state of Hesse after the Second World War .

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , Flörsbach formed the new municipality of Flörsbachtal together with the communities of Kempfenbrunn and Mosborn on April 1, 1972. The district of Gelnhausen was incorporated into the newly formed Main-Kinzig district in 1974 . Local districts were not formed.

Population development

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1583: 26 men paid homage
• 1633: 34 households
• 1753: 31 households with 163 people
• 1812: 39 fireplaces, 216 souls
Flörsbach: Population from 1753 to 2017
year     Residents
1753
  
 163
1812
  
 216
1834
  
 284
1840
  
 300
1846
  
 308
1852
  
 319
1858
  
 333
1864
  
 345
1871
  
 349
1875
  
 352
1885
  
 311
1895
  
 332
1905
  
 358
1910
  
 363
1925
  
 355
1939
  
 325
1946
  
 480
1950
  
 469
1956
  
 372
1961
  
 379
1967
  
 403
1970
  
 425
2008
  
 661
2013
  
 653
2017
  
 657
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; Flörsbachtal community

Religious affiliation

 Source: Historical local dictionary

• 1885: 308 Protestant (= 99.04%), 3 Catholic (= 0.96%) residents
• 1961: 350 Protestant (= 92.35%), 26 Catholic (= 6.86%) residents

Attractions

  • Today's Protestant parish church already existed before the Reformation . She has lost her most important art treasure, the Flörsbacher Altar , which is attributed to the Tilman Riemenschneider School. It may have been removed during the Reformation. It is known that Count Philipp Ludwig II of Hanau-Münzenberg, after the change of faith to the Reformed Confession in 1597, had items of the Roman Catholic liturgy that were no longer required removed from the churches in his country and some of them sold. The altar is now in the Museum of Art and Cultural History Marburg .
  • A conspicuous half-timbered building with a stone basement has housed the forestry office since the 18th century, which existed until 1968.
  • A lion sculpture (known as the “Flörsbacher lion”) is attached to a village well by the fire station, which is now heavily weathered.
  • In the center of the village, where there is now a memorial for those who fell in World War I, there is another fountain ("Unterdorfer Brunnen", dated 1725), which was given a new sandstone fountain when the memorial was inaugurated in 1920.
  • A cultural and historical nature trail was laid out through Flörsbach.

Infrastructure

The federal road 276 runs through the village .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Flörsbach, Main-Kinzig district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of May 24, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Flörsbach district on the website of the municipality of Flörsbachtal, accessed in June 2016
  3. ↑ So for the year 1374. See “Flörsbach, Main-Kinzig-Kreis”. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 362 .
  5. ↑ Information on the nature trail ( Memento from August 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive )